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How do you create one of the best home based businesses? This
is the second article in a four-part series that takes you on a
journey to create your ideal internet home based business. To
view Parts 1, 3, and 4 please do an Author search on Go Articles
for Chrystal Chantel.

In the previous article I asked you to brainstorm what you love
to do, how you like to spend your time, and what your skills and
strengths are.

Now take that list you created and ask yourself these questions:
People who enjoy the same activities you do, what problems do
they face? For example, if you love to garden, what difficulties
do gardeners face? Could you provide a solution to those
problems? If you love to cook, what challenges do chefs face?
Have you come up with unique solutions that have worked for you?
Have you previously thought about possible solutions to problems
you have encountered?

For each enjoyable activity on your list, brainstorm problems
that other people may experience. Put problems on one side of
the page, and potential solutions on the other side.

What goals do people who engage in these activities have? How
could you help them to achieve these goals? It is in the
problems, in discovering what people need that you will find
your potential customers. Take your time to clarify the problem,
for the most successful home based businesses offer specific
solutions to customer needs. Anyone can start a business, but
the best home based businesses are those where customers come
back time and time again, because the business fulfills their
needs.

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” ~Charles F.
Kettering.~

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution, it’s that they can’t
see the problem.” ~G. K. Chesteron~

“If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out
of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
~Jiddu Krishnamurti~

Your challenge is to find a problem that you will enjoy solving,
and a serious need that people will happily pay you to have
solved. Do you have a particular skill for handling certain
kinds of problems? What irritating difficulties have you
overcome in your life, no matter how small? Do you seem to know
how to keep your old car going no matter how old it gets? Have
you find a simple way to keep your children’s hair from getting
tangled? Have you discovered a way to keep your pets free from
fleas?

Maybe you have found solutions to bigger problems such as
experiencing a depression, an illness, or a major life
challenge. It is likely that many other people have also
experienced the problems you have. They may be grateful to
benefit from your personal experience and unique solutions. Your
internet home based business could be developed around sharing
what you have learned with others. Many entrepreneurs discovered
their best home based businesses by examining their own trials
and tribulations. One entrepreneur did just this.

One of the most wildly successful entrepreneurs on the internet
started with a book he wrote advising people how to deal with
car dealerships, and how they could buy cars at bargain prices
instead of paying thousands of dollars extra. This was an
expertise, a knowledge he had, a solution he had discovered and
that he shared with others. This book lay the foundation for a
multi-million dollar empire. He developed one of the best home
based businesses because he took the time to identify what
people needed and then he met that need successfully.

“The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and
you can use it every day, so it grows stronger….And if you’re in
an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just
tolerated why, it’s just as good as sex.” ~Lou Centliver~

Each one of us has talents and abilities; sometimes we take them
for granted. Every one of us has faced problems in our lives,
you may have found unique solutions that others could benefit
from. So your task this week is to identify what problems people
have and how you could help those people. This is your quest for
this week.

So brainstorm all the problems you can think of now and write
them down. Then ask your friends or family if they have noticed
problems that you have solved. Carry the list around with you
for a week or at least three or four days. In your quiet times,
pull out the list and add to it. You are on the quest for the
serious problem, the burning need that people have, that you can
successfully solve.

“Make yourself necessary to somebody.” ~Harry Emerson Fosdick~

This is a very important process you have embarked upon. The
best home based businesses are successful because they have
successfully identified an important need and filled it. This is
what is called a target market. You too can have your own
internet based home business. Your best ideas for the best home
based businesses will come from your own personal experience,
from your own challenges, and sharing how you have overcome them.

Soon you will be ready for Step Three: Assess Your Business
Ideas. In this next article, you will discover how you could
turn your ideas into a product or service that people will
gladly pay you for.

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